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Webster 1913 Edition
Quarry
Quar′ry
,Adj.
[OF.
quarré
.] Quadrate; square.
[Obs.]
Quar′ry
,Noun.
pl.
Quarries
(#)
. [OE.
querre
, OF. cuiriée
, F. curée
, fr. cuir
hide, leather, fr. L. corium
; the quarry
given to the dogs being wrapped in the akin of the beast. See Cuirass
.] 1.
(a)
A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
(b)
A heap of game killed.
2.
The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
“The stone-dead quarry.” Spenser.
The wily
quarry
shunned the shock. Sir W. Scott.
Quar′ry
,Verb.
I.
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
L’Estrange.
Quar′ry
,Noun.
[OE.
quarrere
, OF. quariere
, F. carrière
, LL. quadraria
a quarry, whence squared (quadrati
) stones are dug, fr. quadratus
square. See Quadrate
.] A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th
Mine
(a)
. Quar′ry
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Quarried
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quarrying
.] To dig or take from a quarry;
as, to
. quarry
marbleWebster 1828 Edition
Quarry
QUAR'RY
, n.1.
A square; as a quarry of glass. [Not in use.]2.
An arrow with a square head. [See Quarrel. Not in use.]3.
In falconry, the game which a hawk is pursuing or has killed. [Perhaps from L. quaero.]4.
Among hunters, a part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.QUAR'RY
,Noun.
1.
A place, cavern or pit where stones are dug from the earth, or separated from a large mass of rocks. We generally apply the word mine to the pit from which are taken metals and coal; from quarries are taken stones for building, as marble, freestone, slate, &c.2.
In Paris, the quarries are a vast cavern under the city, several miles in extent.QUAR'RY
,Verb.
I.
QUAR'RY
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
quarry
quarry
English
Noun
quarry (plural quarries)
- A site for mining stone, limestone or slate.
- Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm […]
Translations
site for mining stone
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Verb
quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)
- (transitive) To obtain (mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.
- (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
- They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- quarrying noun
Translations
obtain stone by extraction from a quarry
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Etymology 2
From quirre (“entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward”), from Anglo-Norman quirreie, from Old French cuiriee, altered (influenced by Old French cuir (“skin (of an animal)”), from Latin corium (“hide”)), from coree (“viscera, entrails”), from Vulgar Latin corata (“entrails”), from Latin cor (“heart”).
Noun
quarry (plural quarries)
- An animal which is hunted, notably mammal or bird.
- A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds.
- An object of search or pursuit.
- A US State Department website advertised a reward of up to $1m (£500,000) for the capture of its quarry, who was described as 5ft 11in (180cm) tall, with a pale complexion, "a moustache and a long, heavy beard that is starting to grey". - BBC News website, 27 April 2007
Synonyms
Translations
animal which is hunted
object of search or pursuit
Verb
quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)
- To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of L'Estrange to this entry?)
Etymology 3
Alteration of quarrel (second etymology).
Noun
quarry (plural quarries)
References
- “quarry” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).